Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.